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Thursday, 23 April 2015

ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS

Buckminster Fuller & Olson KundigCONCEPTSBuckminster Fuller;[1] There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly[2] Love is a metaphysical gravity[3] Doing more and more with less and less until you can do everything with nothing[4] Simplicity is the true measure of complexity[5] Reorganising the environment for prosperity[6] Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on usOlson Kundig;[1] Architecture is the intersection between the poetic and the rational[2] Contradictory objectives - open to environment yet closed for privacy[3] A space is not constrained by area inside a building, a space is shaped by it[4] Architecture is a movement and it transforms its surroundings[5] Homes are primitive places[6] Architecture must be as intimate as a family member